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Meg Gaffney surprised doctors and friends by rejecting chemotherapy, dropping out of radiation therapy after one treatment, and opting for a bilateral mastectomy. As a nurse and a patient, Meg is her own advocate, even moments before surgery.

Award-winning filmmaker Peter Starr says his own experiences with prostate cancer prompted him to travel the world seeking answers and alternative treatments for the disease. Find out why he thinks surgery and drugs aren't always the answer.

Fit, feisty and full of life, Meg Gaffney is one more thing -- the face of breast cancer. The path Meg has chosen for treatment is not for everyone; in fact, she's doing something no one has done before. This is the first in a series of exclusive reports.

Health care. Two words that stir passions and causes discussions. Author Shannon Brownlee is one woman who believes health care in America needs fixing and she's taking it upon herself to make the change.

We love to tell the stories of cancer survivors, people who stare death in the face, beat it, then go on to live rich, fulfilling lives. But it doesn't always happen that way. Meet a woman who died trying to get access to a life-saving vaccine.

After discovering that her breast cancer had metastasized, Tami Boehmer turned to the Internet to discover people like her -- the people who statistics are not kind to. What she found changed her life forever.

Major lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise not only helps you lose weight and lower your blood pressure - it actually results in dramatic changes at a genetic level.